Quotes About Artistry

Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

Music, in its true essence, has got no language. You don't listen to anybody because he is black or white or because he belongs to a particular geographical region. You listen to him because you like what he does.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.

I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.

The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.

Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

I take a lot of pride in my songs.

When I write lyrics for Priest, I'm writing them for Priest. I'm not writing them for me.

My dad had these great Benny Goodman albums that I was obsessed with, and Louis Prima's another guy I loved, and Peter Niro the jazz pianist. I loved international music: Irish music, Mexican music. I love the different colours that they all have.

The dream was to be a prima ballerina.

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

The point here is that I enjoyed singing. I enjoyed the rhythm of it. I grew up listening to Louis Prima, who was also rhythmic.

Of course we are doing this primarily for ourselves, but I know our fans dig most of it, too.

I'm still a businessman. But what I do for my primary living and what is my life is music, and that will never change.

The primary plan is to let the music speak for itself.

I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.

I think 'Apricot Princess' actually came out before 'Flower Boy.'

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.